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Computer science
Standard level
Paper 1

Friday 28 October 2022 (afternoon)

1 hour 30 minutes

Instructions to candidates
y Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so.
y Section A: answer all questions.
y Section B: answer all questions.
y The maximum mark for this examination paper is [70 marks].

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Section A

Answer all questions.

1. State two features of a web browser. [2]

2. Construct a truth table for the following expression: [3]

(A xor B) and B

3. A company is using a prototyping approach as part of their software development process.

(a) Outline one advantage of prototyping. [2]

(b) Outline one situation in which the use of a prototype is not the best approach. [2]

4. (a) Identify two fundamental operations of a computer. [2]

(b) Explain the need for higher level languages. [3]

5. A student posts images and videos on a public website of her friends at a party.

(a) Outline one ethical issue with the student posting these images and videos. [2]

(b) Outline one technical issue that may prevent the images and videos from being viewed. [2]

6. Define the term variable.[1]

7. Each pixel on a computer screen has three colour values associated with it: red, green and
blue. The range for each of the three colour values is from 0(10) to 255(10).

Colour values can also be represented in hexadecimal. For example, the colour blue can be
represented in hexadecimal as 0000FF.

(a) State the binary representation of the colour blue. [1]

(b) State the number of colours that can be represented in each pixel on the
computer screen. [1]
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8. Given the one-dimensional array NAMES:

[0] Zixan

[1] Murali

[2] Eli

[3] Kim

construct a trace table for the following algorithm:

K=3
loop while K>=0
A=K mod 3
output (NAMES[A])
K=K-1
end while [4]

Turn over
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Section B

Answer all questions.

9. A company has a local area network (LAN). Ethernet (a wired network) and WiFi
(a wireless network) are the two ways to enable LAN connections.

The LAN is accessible to all employees through their personal accounts. At the office,
employees can use either desktop computers for wired access to the LAN or personal
laptops to connect wirelessly.

(a) Identify one additional hardware component in a wireless LAN. [1]

(b) Distinguish between a wired network and a wireless network in terms of reliability
of transmission. [4]

(c) Outline why a wireless network may be less secure than a wired network. [2]

Employees who are not in the office can access the company’s resources over the internet
using a virtual private network (VPN).

(d) Outline two features of a VPN that make it secure. [4]

Packet switching is used for transmitting data.

(e) Explain how data is transmitted by packet switching. [4]

10. An international organization is moving its offices from Africa to Europe. All of its data will
need to be moved to a new system.

(a) (i) Define the term data migration.[1]

(ii) Outline two issues that could arise concerning data migration. [4]

(b) Outline two aspects of change management that need to be considered, other than
data migration. [4]

The organization will continue to maintain the legacy system.

(c) Explain one problem of maintaining legacy systems. [3]

(d) Explain why parallel running is an expensive changeover method. [3]

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11. An integer divisor of an integer, N(N>0), is an integer greater than zero that divides N without
leaving a remainder. The proper divisors of N are divisors of N other than N itself.

For example:
y The divisors of 10 are 1, 2, 5 and 10.
y The proper divisors of 10 are 1, 2 and 5.

(a) (i) State the number of proper divisors of 2. [1]

(ii) State why 4 is not a proper divisor of 10. [1]

Every number can be classified as abundant, deficient, or perfect according to the

following definitions:

A number is an abundant number if it is less than the sum of its proper divisors.
For example, 12 is an abundant number because 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16, and 16 > 12.

A number is a deficient number if it is greater than the sum of its proper divisors.
For example, 9 is a deficient number because 1 + 3 = 4, and 4 < 9.

A number is a perfect number if it is equal to the sum of its proper divisors. For example,
28 is a perfect number because 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28, and 28 = 28.

(b) Construct an algorithm in pseudocode that will accept an integer, K(K>0), and output
whether K is an abundant number, a deficient number, or a perfect number. [6]

The one-dimensional array DATA holds X(X>0) elements. Each element in the array is an
integer greater than zero.

The subprogram isAbundant() is available. It accepts an integer, N, and returns True if

N is an abundant number, otherwise it returns False. For example, isAbundant(17)
returns False.

(c) Construct an algorithm in pseudocode to:

y determine the number of abundant integers in the array DATA that are odd
y determine the number of abundant integers in the array DATA that are even
y output these two numbers.

You should call the isAbundant() subprogram.

You can assume that the value of X and the array DATA have already been inputted. [7]